#airplane boneyard

[nocternalrandomness]

Area 22 of AMARG - Davis Monthan AFB - Tucson Az

#Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group #AMARG #309th AMARG #Boneyard #airplane graveyard #airplane boneyard #Davis Monthan #Aircraft storage #aviation #aircraft #Area 22

[williammarksommer]

Airplane Boneyard 

Arizona

Abandoned West

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

#Airplane Boneyard #Abandoned West #Arizona #abandoned arizona #airplane #Boneyard #abandoned places #abandoned #abandoned buildings #photo #photographers on tumblr #photographers directory #original photographers #photographerslife #photographer #film photography #film #film is not dead #hasselblad 500c/m #Hasselblad #120 #medium format #kodak #photography #Urban Decay #urbex #urban exploration #road trip #on the road

[aboutoriginality]

#airplane boneyard

[jeffdwoodward]

The Boneyard

A few years ago I visited the Pima Air Museum in Tuscon which is the museum attached to (well, literally it's across a highway from) the famous US Air Force Boneyard.

They had examples of just about everything including fighter jets.

Old and unique commercial planes.

Decommissioned bombers including the infamous B52.

Even the original Boeing 707 Air Force One.

There was even a spot where a group of old DC 3 airframes had been given over to artists to "makeover".

All in all it was an extremely interesting (though at times unsettling) place to spend a day. There's also a small private airport in between Phoenix and Tucson that isn't quite a "boneyard" but is a holding/storage spot for large commercial aircraft that the owners aren't actively using but that aren't at the end of their useful lives yet. I suppose it's where you go if you wanna kick the tires on that used 747. I couldn't get too close because they had roving security in humvees but I snapped a couple photos.

#photooftheday #original photographers #original photography on tumblr #photographers on tumblr #travel photography #planes #airplane #aviation #the boneyard

[skyfire85]

Various models of B-52 out in the Boneyard, some in the process of being dismantled. 

#Aviation #airplane #airplanes #aircraft #boeing b 52 stratofortress #boeing b52 #b 52 stratofortress #b52 stratofortress #buff #amarc #amarg #the Boneyard

[darkarfs]

A little light reading before bed.

#Open Mike Eagle - Airplane Boneyard

[wearerandomlyyours]

Maverick finds a run-down P-51 Mustang in the Airplane Boneyard:

Iceman: Put that back, you don't need that.

Maverick: *Already has it on a trailer* I have money, and you can't stop me.

#top gun #top gun maverick #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #p51mustang #ice cant stop him only because he loves his chaos gremlin husband #incorrect top gun quotes #incorrect quotes #icemav

[usafphantom2]

M-21 was dumped 30 miles from the boneyard!

One of the Skunk Works, beautiful Blackbirds!

This is the M 21 (modified A-12) before it was restored and placed in the Museum of flight in Seattle, Washington.

It was found at Mojave airport, which is 30 miles away, from a boneyard at Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, CA; after it was taken out of storage, it was placed outside. It was sprayed with Spray-lat to protect the skin of the airplane. Such a sad sight. So glad it was restored. The MD 21 was placed in three trucks to go to Seattle, Washington, for display. The M 21, with the addition of a D 21 on its back, is the star of the Museum of flight in Seattle.

I stumbled upon this Lockheed A-12, #60-6940, the only surviving Blackbird M-21 drone carrier variant, mothballed at Mojave in the spring of 1991.

The A-12 was predecessor to the SR-71. This pile of parts was eventually restored This was a post by Troy Paiva.

I’m so glad that this beautiful blackbird was found out in the boneyard and re-stored!

Thank you to Mike McCormick for sending me this.

Linda Sheffield

@Habubrats71 via X

#sr 71 blackbird

[tiredstressedemotionalmess]

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT THERE’S AN “airplane boneyard” NEAR EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE WHICH IS IN THE ZONES ACCORDING TO THE MAP I FOUND ONCE. THERE WOUOD BE KILLJOYS LIVING IN THESE ABDNONED PLANES, USING SCRAP METAL FROM THEM AND SELLING IT, THERE ARE SO MANY POSSIBILITIES OHHHH MY GOD AIRPLANE BONEYARD

OH MY GOD???? THATS SO FUCKING COOL GDHGDHG

god now i wanna create like. an aviation themed crew to inhabit the planes and shit. maybe theyre obsessed with flight and trying to make planes of their own but everyone thinks theyre fucking crazy

#asks #danger days

[caesarsaladinn]

what even happens to Venom Snake after the actual Boss comes back? do they decommission him like an old airplane? keep him around as a body double? put him out to pasture on the mother base platform where they house all the clones who couldn’t hack it as supersoldiers? old friends senior snake sanctuary? blank his memory like a hard drive and drop him at the nearest port, he’s the government’s problem now? put him in the cryogenic boneyard in case they need the spare parts?

[airmanisr]

Consolidated B-32 Dominator by Willard Womack Via Flickr: B-32 on Yontan Okinawa airstrip before takeoff 25 August 1945. Consolidated B-32 Dominators were built, along with the B-29, just in case the B-29 program was a failure. With that program being successful only one hundred eighteen B-32s were built. They seem to have had more problems that than the B-29s. The 386th Bombardment Squadron initially flew B-32s from the Philippines attacking targets on Formosa. Later fifteen aircraft moved to Okinawa, where they flew photo recognizance flights over Japan in the last few weeks of the war. After the war sixty-five, factory new, B-32s flew to the Army airfield in Walnut Ridge Arkansas, where they were scrapped. Search (Walnut Ridge Army Airfield Airplane Boneyards) for some good photos.

#B-32 #aircraft

[nocternalrandomness]

A Heritage flight passing over the boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

#USAF #Heritage Flight #A-10 Warthog #P-51 Mustang #P-38 Lightning #AMARC #Airplane boneyard #Davis-Monthan AFB

[williammarksommer]

Airplane Boneyard

Arizona

Abandoned West

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Tmax 400iso

#Airplane Boneyard #Arizona #Abandoned West #abandoned arizona #trespass #no trespassing #abandoned #abandoned places #abandoned buildings #photographers on tumblr #photographers directory #original photographers #photographerslife #photo #photography #photographer #film photography #film #film is not dead #Hasselblad #hasselblad 500c/m #medium format #120 #Airplane #Boneyard #Urban Decay #urbex #urban exploration #kodak #road trip

[whitepolaris]

Where Old Planes Go to Die

At the junction of State Highways 58 and 14 sits the old road town of Mojave. Located on the western fringe of the upper Mojave Desert, the town is famous for its large airport, where Burt Rutan and designed and built around-the-world-without-landing Global Flyer and his more recent Space Ship One which won the X Prize. 

Since the 1970s, the airport has also seen the storage and ultimate demise of countless more mundane aircraft. The lined-up tails can be seen for miles in every direction. Most of the planes are put into mothballs by struggling airlines during economic downturns. Many more are the entire fleets of now defunct carriers. Inventory peaked in 2002 after the 9/11 attacks when 360 planes in suspended animation lined the taxiways and runways, their windows and engines covered with plastic to seal out the blowing desert grit. Maybe someday these planes will fly again. 

Behind the stored aircraft on the far side of the runway is the boneyard-the place where old planes go to die. An airliner’s life span is not measured in years, but in pressurization/depressurization cycles. After thousands of takeoffs and landings, airplanes can no longer withstand the pressure of high altitude flight without major parts replacement. Most jet airliners reach the end of their operational lifetime in about twenty-five years. These worn places are parked on the desert flats and cannibalized to keep newer versions of the same model flying. Eventually, when the series is retired, the entire manufacturing run of planes makes it way to the boneyard, where the airliners are recycled. When the last parts of the remaining value are removed, the skeletal fuselage is dragged to the recycling area, systematically dismantled, shredded, and melted into raw aluminum ingots. 

At any given time, a half-dozen planes are in various states of disassembly. Some airframes are nearly complete, with only a few high-value parts removed. Others are just broken chunks of random fuselage, stacked on piles of railroad ties or flopped on their bellies in the dirt. 

Because of the Mojave’s relative proximity to Hollywood, a few planes are held in reserve for use in film work. Dozens of action movies and videos have been shot here, including Speed, Die Hard 2, and Swat. If the movie has a scene with blowing up airliners, it was probably filmed at Mojave. 

You need permission to get in. (Sneaking in will guarantee instant arrest and potentially being eaten by guard dogs) But poking around in these junkyards at night is an unforgettable experience. The planes are chopped and gutted like fish-their huge tails lie in the sand, weeping fluids and moaning in the bitter wind. Virtually untouched airframes stand in line on flat tires, waiting for death, monuments to obsolete technology. The boneyard is an unforgettably evocative and romantic place. -Troy Paiva

#weird california #type read

[andris1968]

[ahnewsworld]

73-year-old pays $370 a month to live in a 1,066-square-foot plane

In the early ’70s, Bruce Campbell paid $25,800 for 10 acres of land in Hillsboro, a suburb of Portland, Oregon. The electrical engineer, who’s now 73, tells CNBC Make It the dream began when he saw an airplane boneyard on TV when he was 15 years old. He decided he wanted to live in one. In 1999, Campbell decided he would follow through but had no idea how to go about it, so he hired a salvage…

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